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Saturday, August 5, 2017

The Osaka District Court on July 28
ruled that the government’s decision to exclude Korean schools from free
tuition act is illegal. The same night, North Korea launched a ballistic
missile, which dominated news reports the next day. How are we to understand
the two events that happened on the same day? The Osaka court said in its
ruling, “Education Minister SHIMOMURA Hakubun is seen to delete the provision
out of the “free high school tuition” act in order to exclude Korean schools
based on diplomatic and political views that granting Korean schools free
tuition would not be accepted by the Japanese citizens as it would interfere
with attempts to resolve North Korean abductee issues, which is unrelated to
equality in education at a high-school level. Therefore, the court interprets
deleting the provision as illegal and invalid.”